Comparison

Bleve vs Quickwit

No clear leader: Quickwit (54.4) and Bleve (51.5) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Bleve full profile →Quickwit full profile →

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Bleve52

Quickwit54

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Bleve	Quickwit
Vioscale score	52 / 100low · 49%	54 / 100medium · 52%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	open_source	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	-
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	-	9
Security
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	6.6	7.4
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fblevesearch%2Fbleve&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: MODERATE	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=quickwit-telemetry&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	685	2
Github starsadoption.github_stars	11,187	11,547
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	12	51
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	66	28
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	Rust
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-

Score

Vioscale score

Bleve52 / 100low · 49%

Quickwit54 / 100medium · 52%

Pricing

Free tier

Bleve✓

Quickwit✓

Model

Bleveopen_source

Quickwitcommercial

Price level

Blevefree

Quickwitfree

Transparent

Bleve✓

Quickwit–

Integrations

Count

Bleve–

Quickwit9

Security

Scorecard

Bleve6.6

Quickwit7.4

Vulnerabilities

BleveCount: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fblevesearch%2Fbleve&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: MODERATE

QuickwitCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=quickwit-telemetry&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Adoption

Dependent repos

Bleve685

Quickwit2

Github stars

Bleve11,187

Quickwit11,547

Activity

Commits last 30d

Bleve12

Quickwit51

Release

Cadence days

Bleve66

Quickwit28

History

Bleve20 items

Quickwit20 items

License

Spdx

BleveApache-2.0

QuickwitApache-2.0

Language

Primary

BleveGo

QuickwitRust

Market

Availability

BleveAvailable worldwide

Quickwit–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for search engines. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Search Engines
Capability	Bleve	Quickwit
Deployment
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Architecture
Index engine	Custom	Tantivy
Query
Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)	Query string syntax with term, phrase, match, prefix, fuzzy, range, and compound	Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST
Faceting & filtering	Yes	Yes
Geo search	✓	-
Relevance
Typo tolerance / fuzzy	Built-in	-
Relevance tuning	BM25 only	-
Vector
Vector / hybrid search	Dense + lexical fusion	-
Scale
Distributed / horizontal scale	Single-node	Sharded
Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)	✓	✓
Ingest
Real-time indexing	Near-real-time	Near-real-time
Workload
Log / analytics workload	✗	✓
Licensing
Licence class	Permissive OSS	Permissive OSS

Deployment

BleveSelf-hosted

QuickwitSelf-hosted

Architecture

Index engine

BleveCustom

QuickwitTantivy

Query

Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)

BleveQuery string syntax with term, phrase, match, prefix, fuzzy, range, and compound

QuickwitElasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST

Faceting & filtering

BleveYes

QuickwitYes

Geo search

Bleve✓

Quickwit-

Relevance

Typo tolerance / fuzzy

BleveBuilt-in

Quickwit-

Relevance tuning

BleveBM25 only

Quickwit-

Vector

Vector / hybrid search

BleveDense + lexical fusion

Quickwit-

Scale

Distributed / horizontal scale

BleveSingle-node

QuickwitSharded

Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)

Bleve✓

Quickwit✓

Ingest

Real-time indexing

BleveNear-real-time

QuickwitNear-real-time

Workload

Log / analytics workload

Bleve✗

Quickwit✓

Licensing

Licence class

BlevePermissive OSS

QuickwitPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Bleve

A library that enables Go developers to embed powerful text, numeric, geospatial, and vector search capabilities directly into their applications through a simple API.

Independently observed

Quickwit

Open-source search engine and log analytics platform with real-time indexing, distributed deployment, and Elasticsearch API compatibility.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Bleve

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Quickwit

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Bleve	Quickwit
WebPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

Web

Bleve✗

Quickwit✓

CLI

Bleve✓

Quickwit✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Bleve✗

Quickwit✓

Self-hosted

Bleve✓

Quickwit✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Bleve

Not documented yet.

Quickwit

9 total

AWS Lambda
AWS S3
Google Cloud Storage
Kafka
SQS
Elasticsearch
Jaeger
Trino
OTLP

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.